6th May 2014 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie EMC, the US multinational that employs more than 3,000 people in Ireland, has announced that company executive, Bob Savage, will now lead EMC’s Centre of Excellence (COE) operations across Europe, Middle East and Africa. In his new role, Savage will oversee two key strategic COEs in Russia and... Read More
5th May 2014 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie An election candidate for Cork County Council has a great surname; Desmond. She is running in an area where there has been a long serving Councillors with that name! The new candidate Mary-Rose Desmond belongs to Fianna Fail, where as the outgoing Paul Desmond is a stalwart of... Read More
2nd May 2014 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Good news for jobseekers in Cork. VoxPro in Mahon and Blackrock are recruiting. 350 positions in their call and contact centre. VoxPro handles phone calls and internet based customer support for organisations including Google and Nest. The Taoiseach visited the Cork headquartered company earlier to make the... Read More
2nd May 2014 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie The Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht Jimmy Deenihan was in Skibbereen, West Cork this afternoon to view construction works on the new building for the West Cork Arts Centre, due to open in 2 months time. Established 20 years ago the WCAC has outgrown it’s current... Read More
3rd May 2014 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie The Cork Business Association has a new C-E-O. Lawrence Owens is taking over from Donal Healy; who recently retired having served seven years. Lawrence has a long association with CBA, and has been involved with the retail trade for over 35 years: working his way up in Roches... Read More
2nd May 2014 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie 48 schools in Cork will benefit from refurbishment works over the summer being paid for by the Department of Education. It’s called the “Summer works scheme”. The schools which will benefit from Round 2 have been announced. The majority of work will be refurbishing toilets and roofs. The... Read More
1st April 2014 By Tom Collins & Bryan Smyth tom@TheCork.ie & bryan@TheCork.ie The 8-month campaign to restore a “full bus service” to the Glen, Blackpool and Dublin Hill has succeeded! More than 40 residents met last night in the Glen Resource Centre. They voted by an overwhelming majority to accept proposals from the National Transport... Read More
30th April 2014, Wednesday By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie The Irish Naval Service have taken delivery of a new vessel. The 50 million euro LE. Samuel Beckett is around 300 feet in length, and was built at a shipyard in Devon, England. She weighs almost 2-thousand tonnes, and can hold 54 people. The Samuel Beckett... Read More
30th April 2014 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Voting in Clonakilty’s independent poll to elect a Community Mayor has been put back by one day. The Local Dúchas Heritage Group want the West Cork Tourist town to have some form of a Mayor to represent the area after the Statutory Town Council, and “Town Mayor”... Read More
29th April 2014 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie A campaign to rename Cork Airport after the the famous guitarist Rory Gallagher is continuing to gain momentum. More than 10-thousand people have signed a petition. Gallagher passed away in 1995 at the young age of 47. He was one described by Jimi Hendrix as the “world’s... Read More
29th April 2014, Tuesday By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie A Labour County Councillor in Cork has called on the leader of his own party to step down. Cllr Noel McCarthy from the Fermoy/Mitchelstown Area says Labour Leader Eamon Gilmore “must go order to save the party”, His views echo those of Phil Prendergast MEP, who... Read More
26th April 2014 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Revenue Seizes Tobacco and Counterfeit Vodka in Cork In an intelligence led operation, Officers from Revenue’s Customs Service seized 56kgs of illegal tobacco and 20 cases of counterfeit vodka on the M8 near Fermoy last night (25/04/14 ). The seizure has a total retail value of approximately €27,500.... Read More